Andrew Solomon Quotes

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Perception is reality.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Reality is negotiable.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

Feelings change facts.